Improvement in skates



0. ED WAR DS.

Skates.

Patented Aug. 18,1874.

Will/11111117 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER EDWARDS, OF FLORENCE, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS HIS RIGHT TO J. DWIGHT KELLOGG, JR., OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT m SKATES.

. Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 154,175, dated August 18,

July :22, 1874.

1874; application filed CASE A.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER EDWARDS, of Florence, in the county of Hampshire, in the State of Massachusetts, have made certain Improvementsin Skates, of which the following is the specification:

The object of this invention is to improve upon the skate patented to J. D.Kellogg, J r., numbered 149,225, and dated March 31, 1874; and it consists in the difl'erence in construction from the above-named patent in the matter of clamping the skate to the sole of the boot or shoe, as will be more fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of the skate; Fig. 2, a top'view of the toe-plate and clamps; Fig. 3, a view of the bottom of same Fig. 4, a transverse section of same; Fig. 5, a top view of heel-support; Fig. 6, a side view of same in position to receive the heel of the boot between the serrated clamps; Fig. 7, part section of same, to show adjustment of the clamp; Fig. 8, transverse part sectional view of rear part of heelclamp; Figs. 9 and 10, modification of adjustment of heel-clamp.

A represents the runner of a skate, with its risers a a and a. B represents the longitudinally-divided plate for the support of the toe or ball of the foot, forming two leaves, and on the under side of each leaf are riveted downwardlyprojecting lugs b r b. b b are brackets that extend outwardly and horizontally from each side of and above the top of the risers a, and are grooved on theirunder ends to receive the risers a, and to which they are secured by rivets or screws that pass through the lower limbs b b of the brackets 11 b and the risers of the runner, as seen in Figs. 1 and 4. The horizontally-extended parts I) of the brackets b are pivoted to the lugs b on the leaves of plate B by pins or screws 11*, so that the leaves of plates B will freely hinge or partially rotate thereon. O O are angular and slotted clamps, to take hold of the edge of the boot-sole at the ball of the foot, and, by the toothed or serrated edges 0, hold the skate fast to the boot, when the clamps are caused to bear hard upon the edge of the sole and freel gnideways X X. gular clamps in to the different are serrated plates side of each leaf of ions on the under y slide between 0 c are slots through the a order to adjust the clamps O widths of boot-soles. c c riveted fast to the under plate B, with the serrat sides, which serrations fit serrations on the upper side of th are holding-screws that go clamp G and screw into and plate B and so as clamps (l to any adjustment dethrough the slo the serrated plate 0 to hold the 1B and the adjusted to hold of the and their outer sides swung as seen in Fig. 4, the boot te and the weight of the leaves of plate B into horias seen in dotted lines in said e will be permanently fixed to main so until the weight is reclamps swing down. to relieve the sole of the boot.

plate or support is divided transwhich D is a bin to the riser a By this construction 'of plate clamp-pieces O, and the clamps the proper width to take a firm edge of the sole, down in position placed on the pla person forces the zontal position, Fig. 4, the skat the boot and re moved and the their hold upon of the runner A that fit upon each side of and are pivoted thereto so as to turn partially pright, or nea Fig. 6, and has n rated clamps, d d, rising fro side of the heel plate or so Fig. 5. D is the other port, and is similar to except that it is not pivoted 0 moves horizontally and forward a, to adjust the distance tha clamp d, that rises u side of the plate, d, to accommoda by means of a h and a holdingone of the ears that through the that when the clamp 11 on part D is adjusted and held at the right distance from the clamps on part D and D, turned over to the position seen in Fig. 6, the position of the clamps is ready to receive the heel of the boot, and when the weight of the person is put upon the heel the part D will assume a horizontal position, as seen in Fig. 7, and firmly clamp the heel of the skate fast to the heel of the boot.

Other constructions for adjusting the heelclamps to the size of the boot-heel may be used, as, for instance, one or both of the ears of part D, that drop down on the sides of the riser, may be serrated so as to fit into serrations on the riser or to a secondary serrated plate, and, when adjusted to the right place,

' tudinally-divided plate or foot-rest B, serrated plates 0, and adjustable slotted and serrated sliding clamps O, constructed and arranged to operate substantially as described.

Witnesses: OLIVER EDWARDS.

CALVIN PORTER, E. VQTANNER. 

